Teacher Resources

Those wishing to learn more about computational science are invited to investigate these resources.

• Introduction to Computational Science
  A textbook written by Angela B. Shiflet and George W. Shiflet from Wofford College
• Using Excel and Real Data Sets
  An online course

Student Projects

MVHS students learn about parallel processing and build a model of the carbon cycle and its impact on global temperatures.

• Parallel Computing
• Global Warming

MVHS Projects in the News

• Modeling Oscillatory Systems
  A project designed by MVHS teachers and referenced in the textbook, Introduction to Computational Science.
• The MVHS Earthquake Project
  A collaborative project featured by the National Science Foundation.

Assorted Articles

Each article features a computational science project used in the classroom.

• Student-Built Models Enhance Learning in Science and Mathematics
• Flowing Through the Scientific Method
• The Coffee Cooling Modeling Challenge
• Modeling the Black Bear Population
• MVHS Takes Snow to Task

MVHS Tour 1994-2000

The MVHS Tour captures the highlights of the first six years of MVHS.

Verona Computational Science Teacher Leader Award Winners

• Charlotte Trout - 2007
• John Meinzen - 2008
• Scott Sinex - 2008
• Jesse Bemley - 2009
• Susan Ragan - 2009
• Bruce Bennett, Rosalie Eimers, Marian Houseman - 2010
• Manorama Talaiver - 2011
• Michael White - 2011

Student Programming Contests

• Teragrid '09 Programming Contest
• SC09 Education Program
• Teragrid '10 Programming Contest

Project Recognition

• Seeing is Believing, an article in Scholastic Administrator, describes how MVHS simulations are used to extend standard science lab experiments (2006).
• Maryland Virtual High School-Integrating Technology and Teacher Professionalism with Science Education Reform, an article written by Mary Ellen Verona, was published in Boston University's Journal of Education, Vol. 81 No. 2. (2002)
• Websims: Creating an Online Science Lab, an article written by Mary Ellen Verona, was published as a case study in Cybereducation: the Future of Long Distance Learning (2001).
• MVHS CoreModels was designated as a promising technology project by the U.S. Department of Education (2000).
• MVHS was chosen by the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards to become part of the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology Innovation (1998).